A clynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughtd other man by reason of respect or natural love.

The more we see, the more we shall be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

Mistakes are to Life what shadows are to Light.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine thestrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted withunlimited power.

Comedy is an escape, not from the truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

Man alone contains within himself as many species as exist on earth.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Take yourlife into your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one toblame.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.